• The proposed merger between T-Mobile and Orange looks set for investigation by the Office of Fair Trading. The agreement could also lead to the companies selling a portion of the wireless spectrum they own in Britain, after a deal between the government and mobile companies to cap the amount of bandwidth that any single company can control.
• Talking of T-Mobile, the company's US arm - and in particular, its partnership with Microsoft - has been struck by a serious blow. First an outage hit users of the Sidekick phone, provided by T-Mobile and powered by Danger, the phone subsidiary bought by Redmond in 2008. On Saturday, things got worse: customers were told that their data was gone, and that Microsoft/Danger could not recover it. That's painful for everybody involved.
• High science often inspires fear, but the paranoia that surrounded the switch-on of the Large Hadron Collider is likely to increase after French police arrested a Cern engineer over suspected links to al-Qaida. It's now being reported that he has admitted contact with the terrorist group.
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